Lisa Jewell Quotes

#1. The journey back through the house, like all return journeys, felt shorter and less convoluted; the sense of knowing how long the tunnels were and where they ended up was reassuring

Lisa Jewell

#2. Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. For it is the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it.

Colette

#3. The concept of a troubled, lonely, middle-class, gay fifty-eight-year-old living alone in dusty squalor in a chocolate-box cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds was a hard one to grasp in the context of his sweaty, noisy, hectic, foreign, red-light existence.

Lisa Jewell

#4. She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies.

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#5. Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first.

Lisa Jewell

#6. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it wanted to it would.

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#7. I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

Frankie Valli

#8. Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry,

Isabel Allende

#9. Create a wonderful Christmas or winter centerpiece using this wine bottle craft! You'll turn something destined for the recycling bin into a gorgeous and dramatic centerpiece, perfect for holiday parties.

Julia Litz

#10. They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

Lisa Jewell

#11. Maybe it was too much of a coincidence to be a purely coincidence.

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#12. Miss Manners' meager arsenal consists only of the withering look, the insistent and repeated request, the cold voice, the report up the chain of command and the tilted nose. They generally work.

Judith Martin

#13. That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

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#14. If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.

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#15. Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

Robert Scholes

#16. He was being called on to be a man, called up for service almost, except his country didnt need him, his lover did, and he felt proud and strong and ready to do whatever was necessary.

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#17. I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

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#18. There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest
and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

Lisa Jewell

#20. You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator than a participant, as if you are studying us, possibly for some sort of anthropological purpose. Do you even like us?

Lisa Jewell

#21. Adele was struck by how often women undervalued their own efforts while being endlessly impressed by those of their peers.

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#22. She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

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#23. I may be weak but i'm never defeated and i'll keep believing in clouds with that sweet silver lining.

Kate Voegele

#24. To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Tommaso Campanella

#25. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#26. It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

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#27. Moving on is something that happens to you, not something you do. That's what people don't realize. Moving on is not proactive. It's organic. Be kind to yourself.

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#28. Anyone with a way of thinking that sees and recognizes nothing but their own "EGO" has the potential to destroy their "SELF".

Nimet Erenler Gulkoku

#29. Memories fluttered about her mind, of days that had passed and died and were never to return.

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#30. Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect - you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .

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#31. Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

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#32. Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Diego Luna

#33. she was only here because she didn't have the guts to be anywhere else. Because she felt like the last guest at an unsuccessful party, too guilt-ridden to leave.

Lisa Jewell